subtitle

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Etymology

sub- +‎ title

Noun

subtitle (plural subtitles)

1. A heading below or after a title.
2. Textual versions of the dialog in films, usually displayed at the bottom of the screen.

Usage notes

In film and video, subtitles usually translate foreign-language dialogue, while captions transcribe or describe all significant dialogue and sound for viewers who cannot hear it.

Derived terms

• subtitled, subtitling

Related terms

• surtitle, surtitles, surtitled, surtitling

See also

• Subtitle (titling) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Subtitle (titling)
• Subtitle (captioning) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Subtitle (captioning)

Translations

heading below a title

• Arabic: عنوان فرعي (ar) (3unwaan far3iy) m (plural: عناوين فرعية (ar) (3anaawiin far3íyya) m pl)
• Czech: podtitul (cs) m
• Finnish: alaotsikko (fi)
• French: sous-titre (fr) m
• German: Untertitel (de) m
• Greek: υπότιτλος (el) (ypótitlos) m
• Hungarian: alcím (hu)
• Icelandic: undirtitill (is) m, undirfyrirsögn (is) f, aukafyrirsögn (is) f

• Irish: fotheideal (ga) m
• Macedonian: поднаслов (mk) (pódnaslov) m
• Polish: podtytuł (pl) m
• Portuguese: subtítulo (pt) m, legenda (pt)
• Russian: подзаголо́вок (ru) (podzagolóvok)
• Scottish Gaelic: fo-thiotal (gd) m
• Spanish: subtítulo (es) m
• Swedish: undertitel (sv) c

textual versions of the dialog in films

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 字幕 (cmn) (zìmù)

• Czech: titulky (cs) m pl
• Danish: undertekst (da) c
• Dutch: ondertiteling (nl)
• Finnish: tekstitys (fi)
• French: sous-titre (fr) m
• German: Untertitel (de) m
• Greek: υπότιτλοι (el) (ypótitloi) m pl
• Hindi: उपशीर्षक (hi) (upśīrṣak)
• Hungarian: felirat (hu)
• Icelandic: texti (is) m, þýðing (is) f, þýðingartexti (is) m, kvikmyndatexti (is) m

• Irish: fotheideal (ga) m
• Japanese: 字幕 (ja) (じまく, jimaku)
• Korean: 자막 (ko) (jamak) (字幕 (ko))
• Macedonian: титл (mk) (titl) m, титлови (mk) (títlovi) pl, превод (mk) (prévod) m
• Malay: sari kata (ms), subjudul (ms)
• Polish: napisy (pl) m pl
• Portuguese: legenda (pt) f
• Russian: субтитр (ru) (subtítr) m, (plural: субтитры (ru) (subtítry) pl)
• Scottish Gaelic: fo-thiotal (gd) m
• Spanish: subtítulo (es) m, subtítulos (es) m pl
• Swedish: textremsa (sv) c, undertext (sv) c
• Turkish: altyazı (tr)
• Vietnamese: phụ đề (vi)

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Translations to be checked

• Italian: sottotitolo m; didascalia f

Verb

subtitle (third-person singular simple present subtitles, present participle subtitling, simple past and past participle subtitled)

1. To create subtitles for the dialog in a film.

Translations

to create subtitles

• Czech: otitulkovat (cs)
• Finnish: tekstittää (fi)
• Greek: υποτιτλίζω (el) (ypotitlízo)

• Irish: fotheidealaigh (ga)
• Spanish: subtitular (es)
• Swedish: texta (sv)

Anagrams

• blue tits, bluetits